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Chartered by British Railways from July 1949 to September 1950 when boiler defects put her out of service. Scrapped in 1951 in Antwerp. [59] Lord Warden: 1951 3,333 - Built in 1951 by William Denny & Bros. Collided on 7 July 1956 with French ship Tambre and was damaged at the stern. Collided with the quayside on 2 August 1975 at Calais ...
Ships that sailed for British Rail from 1948 to 1997. for the rail company predecessors before 1948 see sub categories of Category:Ships by company some were operated by the British Transport Commission up to 1962 (when the BTC was abolished) from 1982 many were operated by Sealink (BR subsidiary)
The British Rail Class 99 were a fleet of train ferries, most of which were owned by Sealink, that carried rail vehicles between Britain and mainland Europe. When British Rail implemented the TOPS system for managing their operating stock, these ships were incorporated into the system in order to circumvent some of the restrictions of the ...
Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Lancaster and the TSS Duke of Argyll she was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for British Railways (at that time, also a ferry operator). [1] She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway , RMS Duke of Rothesay .
The Duke of York was requisitioned in 1942 for war service. She was renamed as HMS Duke of Wellington as there was a battleship with the name "Duke of York". She was converted to a "Landing Ship, Infantry (Hand-Hoisting)"; the latter part referred to her hand-operated davits; abbreviated to LSI(H).
Ordered by the LMS, but by the time she arrived, the LMS had been incorporated into the British Transport Commission. Sold to Greece in 1976 becoming the Express Apollon: 4,973 Hampton Ferry: LMS: 1934: Dover-Dunkirk, Stranraer-Larne Owned by Southern Railway, requisitioned as HMS Hampton 1939. Used on Stranraer-Larne route 1940–44.
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
She replaced a former ship of the same name which had been sunk by torpedo on 13 June 1941. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] British Railways took ownership in 1948 and she was based in Weymouth. Typically running services to Cherbourg, she was also used in the summer for trips from Torquay to the Channel Islands. [ 5 ]